The photochromic compound is represented by the following general formula (1):

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wherein, X denotes an oxygen atom or a nitrogen atom unsubstituted or substituted by a substituent selected from the following Y.sup.1 group:
Y.sup.1 group: —R.sup.1, -A.sup.1(B.sup.1).sub.l(A.sup.2).sub.m(B.sup.2).sub.nR.sup.2, -A.sup.3A.sup.4, -A.sup.5R.sup.3
R.sup.1 denotes a cyano group or the like,
R.sup.2 denotes an alkyl group or the like,
R.sup.a denotes a halogen atom or the like,
A.sup.1, A.sup.2, A.sup.3, and A.sup.5 each independently denote an alkylene group or the like,
A.sup.4 denotes a naphthyl group which may be substituted,
B.sup.1 and B.sup.2 each independently denote any one of the divalent groups selected from the following group:

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l, m, and n are each independently 0 or 1, provided that n is 0 if m is 0,
Y.sup.2 denotes a hydrogen atom or the like,
R denotes a hydrogen atom or the like,

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denotes a norbornylidene group or the like.

A primer coating composition for bonding a functional laminate to a lens during cast-polymerization, including an acrylic polymer; a urethane acrylate oligomer; a reactive component capable of reacting with a lens-casting monomer for casting the cast-polymerized lens, a UV initiator or a thermal initiator, and a solvent. A method for cast-polymerizing a lens, including applying the primer coating composition to at least one external surface of a functional laminate; cutting and forming the functional laminate, placing the shaped functional laminate to which the primer coating is applied and a monomer for casting a lens in a casting cell so that the monomer contacts the primed surface of the functional laminate, and cast-polymerizing the monomer in the casting cell. An ophthalmic lens, including a cast-polymerized lens including at least one polymer, a functional laminate, and a primer coating obtained y curing the primer coating composition and deposited on at least one external surface of the functional laminate.

A method of manufacturing an optical lens (417, 901), comprising: obtaining (S301) a transparent thermoplastic (TP) carrier (410, 1210) with at least one smooth surface; printing (S305), via a 3-D printer on the side opposite to the at least one smooth surface of the transparent TP carrier (410, 1210), at least one transparent layer (420, 1220) using a thermoplastic filament (403), each transparent layer (420, 1220) having a predetermined light filtering property, thereby forming a functional layer (420, 1220); and performing (S307) an injection over-molding process (415) to fuse bond the functional layer (420, 1220) to a thermoplastic substrate thereby forming the optical lens, wherein the at least one smooth surface of the transparent TP carrier (410, 1210) forms a smooth surface of the manufactured optical lens (417, 901).

Various embodiments of the present invention provide for systems and apparatus directed toward using a contact lens and deflection optics to process display information and non-display information. In one embodiment of the invention, a display panel assembly is provided, comprising: a transparent substrate that permits light to pass through substantially undistorted: a reflector disposed on the transparent substrate; and a display panel aimed toward the reflector and substantially away from a human visual system, wherein the reflector reflects light emitted from the display panel toward the human visual system. The reflector may comprise a narrow band reflector or a polarization reflector.

The invention relates to an ophthalmic lens configured to exhibit a clear state and optionally at least one darker state. The lens has a front and a rear surface (Cx and Cc) respectively defining a front and a rear side of the lens, the lens having in the clear state (FS) a visual transmittance at an AOI of 0° greater than 81%, the lens comprising: - a substrate having a front and a rear main face respectively adjacent the front and rear surface, and - at least one multilayered interferential coating comprising a front multilayered interferential coating which surmounts the front main face and which comprises at least one absorbing front layer in the visible region. In said clear state, a total visual reflectance for the lens Rv_t_rear from the rear and front surface, measured from the rear side at an AOI of 35°, is less than 5.0%, and in said clear state, the difference R.sub.v_t_front - R.sub.v_t_rear of the total visual reflectance from the rear and front surface, measured from the front side at an AOI of 15°, and of from the rear and front surface, measured from the rear side at an AOI of between 0 and 15°, is greater than 1.0 %.

A package of a heat-bent polarizing sheet for producing an injection-molded polarizing lens, in which a laminated polarizing sheet prepared by bonding a transparent plastic sheet onto each of two sides of a polarizing film formed of a uniaxially stretched polyvinyl alcohol resin film with an adhesive layer interposed therebetween is used as an individual laminated polarizing sheet that has an original plate shape for individual lenses, the individual laminated polarizing sheet is heat-bent to form a spherical aspherical surface under heating to prepare a heat-bent polarizing sheet, the heat-bent polarizing sheet is set onto a mold, and a transparent resin for lenses is injection-molded onto a concave surface of the heat-bent polarizing sheet. The heat-bent polarizing sheet is a heat-bent polarizing sheet that is stored or transported in a dampproof package and can be used in injection molding without performing preliminary drying as a pretreatment of injection molding.

A method of producing an optical article includes applying an imbibition composition having at least one dye onto at least a portion of at least one imbibable surface (45) of a substrate (20) to form a coated substrate (10). The method further includes irradiating at least a portion of the coated substrate with heat from a heat source (80) to form a heat gradient across the coated substrate (10) to diffuse the at least one dye into the imbibable surface to form an at least partially imbibed substrate having a dye concentration gradient corresponding to the heat gradient. The method further includes removing a residual component of the imbibition composition from the at least partially imbibed substrate. The dye concentration gradient forms a gradient pattern upon exposure to actinic radiation.

The present invention provides a functional sheet including a functional layer provided between protective layers. The functional layer is a polarizing film layer, a photochromic layer, or a combination of the polarizing film layer and the photochromic layer. At least one of the protective layers includes a layer formed of a resin (C) containing a polyester resin (A) obtained as a result of polycondensation of 1,4-cyclohexanedimethanol and 1,4-cyclohexanedicarboxylic acid and an aromatic polycarbonate resin (B), the polyester resin (A) being contained at a content of 10 to 100 parts by mass and the aromatic polycarbonate resin (B) being contained at a content of 0 to 90 parts by mass with respect to 100 parts by mass as a total of the polyester resin (A) and the aromatic polycarbonate resin (B). A lens is provided with such a functional sheet.

An ophthalmic lens incorporating an optically functional wafer having improved adhesion to a polymerized polyurea-urethane bulk lens resin.

Embodiments disclosed herein include eyewear that provides controlled variable light attenuation and color enhancement based on an input received from a user, a sensor and/or a signal from a control circuit. In some embodiments, the eyewear includes an optical filter system with two or more defined filter states that are adapted to improve color vision in different environments. The optical filter system can be incorporated into a lens having any desired curvature, including, for example, cylindrical, spherical or toroidal. The lens can include one or more functional components. Examples of functional components include color enhancement filters, chroma enhancement filters, a laser attenuation filter, electrochromic filters, photoelectrochromic filters, variable attenuation filters, anti-reflection coatings, interference stacks, hard coatings, flash mirrors, anti-static coatings, anti-fog coatings, other functional layers, or a combination of functional layers.